kate0x

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1. Nursing Salary Survey 2014

   kate0x replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Nursing

   Pennsylvania 21.00/hour skilled geriatric nursing LPN 3 years full time 3-11 shift no shift differential charge nurse (non management position)

2. Violent/combative residents?

   kate0x replied to nursehaley91's topic in Geriatric

   This is news to me! We always send residents out to try and commit them and they always send them back saying they can't with a dementia diagnosis. Maybe we just have some dumb hospitals around here. :) haha

3. Morphine and End Of Life

   kate0x replied to MelissaLPN's topic in Geriatric

   I personally would have given the morphine. If the patient is actively dying, why not? You can't really know for sure whether they are in pain or not. I am very PRO morphine at a time like this. HOWEVER, you definitely have rights and should never do...

4. Violent/combative residents?

   kate0x replied to nursehaley91's topic in Geriatric

   In Pennsylvania, when you send a resident out to a psych facility or even to the ER to have them 302 committed, they will not keep them if there is a dementia diagnosis. Doing so is actually illegal. We've run into this problem quite a few times at m...

5. Interesting convo with a former coworker...

   kate0x replied to herculean's topic in Geriatric

   I have 25 residents at my job and I can get a 3-11 med pass (just as heavy as day shift) done in 1 hr depending on the night (:

6. Will I ever get out of LTC or am I doomed?

   kate0x replied to JZ_RN's topic in Geriatric

   could not agree with you more egglady.

7. On working with LPNs in the clinical setting

   kate0x replied to Nola009's topic in Geriatric

   I agree with this so much. LPNs don't rush through a med pass by choice, they have to! Also, it becomes second nature as you learn your residents and their meds.